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A10056	Recusants conversion a sermon preached at St. James, before the Prince on the 25. of Februarie. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20301; ESTC S115205	21,005	38

mountaine of his house So that the meaning of the words is this that they that had beene recusants from the Church aliants from the Congregatiō of Israell should at the lenght be written in Gods book incorporated into Christes bodie cloathed with Christes righteousnesse admitted to bee schollers in Christes Church Esay 18.7 and receaued to bee inheritours of Christes Kingdome and as this our Prophet speaketh in his 18. Chap. vers 7. At that time a present shal bee brought vnto the Lord of hostes a people that is scattered abroad and spoiled and of a terrible people from their beginning hetherto a nation euen by little and little troaden vnder foot whose Land the riuers haue spoiled to the place of the Lord of hosts to the mount Syon These bee the people these the present these bee they that come that goe that goe on that goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the god of Iacob The doctrine that J gather from this place is this that euerie one haue an especial regard and care to knowe whether he be a true member of the Church Doct whether he be truly one of the societie of al Christiā souls The reason of this doctrine is this they that bee not of this Church they cannot assure themselues of any true ioie Reason anie true peace anie true comfort in this life or in that to come J might proue this by many places but J know not howe J maie be dispenced with in this congregation for prolixitie of speech and therfore wil drawe vnto an end Psal 15.1 Dauid in the 15. Psalme asketh this question who be the true members of the Church Lord who shal dwel in thy Tabernacle or who shal rest vpon thy holy mountaine J referre you to the answere viewe it obserue it read it then remember The truest argument that we haue to proue these Conuerts to be of the Church is this their earnest desire to come to present themselues before the Lord in his house So that leaving al other marks I dare be bold to averre out of this place That they that come to present thēselues vnto God in his house with true faithful lowlie penitent and obedient soules they are the true Saints and seruants of God O how should this moue vs to earnest and vnfained devotion howe should this moue vs to sing with David O how pleasant are thy tabernacles O Lord of hosts Indeede they were pleasant and amiable to him he could haue wished himselfe a very Potter a dorekeeper in the house of his God yea when he was absent from the Tabernacle he lamented that his happinesse was not so much as the very Sparrow and Swallow that sound a nest and building place in the Temple s 84.4 concluding in that Psalme O blessed are they that dwel in thy house I need not to tell you of the magnificēt structure of the Temple how gloriously erected how beautifully frāed how past al imaginations furnished how finished dedicated blessed admired honored frequēted how esteemed by God himselfe as a holie mansion the very ioie of the earth the beauty of the world the glorie of al natiōs the pallace of the great king the delight paradise of the highest where was the Arke couenaunt the tables of the Testimonie the Seraphins Cherubins and mercie seat al being strange things of much excellencie but the summitie of al happinesse was the residence of Gods eternal fauour there J need not to tel you of the honor that the verie heathēs had in their reputing of this to be most holy of Antiq. ib. 11.8 2.2 14.8 Iosephus in his Antiquities testifieth what obseruant regard was borne to this sanctuarie by Alexander the great by Ptolomaens Philadelphus by Pompey the great and many others J omit the stiles titles names attributs and other encomiasticks of this Temple The vse J make of the doctrine proposed is this to exhort euerie man to comfortable remembrance of this benefit that he is one of Gods Church and maie be bould to present himselfe before the Lorde in his Church that wheras manie dare not be bold to speak vnto some others of the same mould and matter dare not I saie come into the presence or enter the priuie Chamber yet they maie be bold to enter Gods great Chamber of presence the residence of his fauour the habitation of his honour his Sanctuarie Temple Tabernacle mountaine house Church Ho wought this to moue vs Seeing wee maie bee bold to come to this mountaine yea more to the house of this mountaine nay more to the God of this house of this house J maie wel saie for if euer he were God he was Deus Iacobi And J from the inwards of my soule pray that this Court of St Iames maie be as truely Domus Iacobi as he hath bin Deus Iacobi who knoweth not that he is Deus Iacobi a God a great powerful God whose Court is Celum wose hal is expansum whose starre-chamber is firmamentum whose exchequer is profūdum whose Kings bench is Empyraeum whose throne is heauen whose footstole is earth whose washpott is the sea whose attendants be Angels whose horses be the winds whose Chariots be the fire whose word is his wil whose wil is his command whose commande is his power whose power is eternal making him feareful to his enimies merciful to his seruants iust in his iudgmēts true in his promises wonderful in his mercies meruellous in his wounders al this is comprehēded in this he is Deus Jacobi J hope none of you are so stonie harted but wil be moued by the mountaine or if not by the house of this mountaine or if not by the God of this house or if not yet sure by this title that he is Deus Jacobi J shall exhort and by violence drawe some conuersion or compunction or deuotion from you Gratious Prince giue me leaue to speake to your Highnes J confesse J am not Agapetus to giue precepts to Iustinian or a Plinie to giue instructions to Traian or an Aristotle to giue Councel to the young Prince Alexander yet giue me leaue to remember your highnesse of one higher the Lord of Lords the Prince of Princes Remember his name his feare his seruice his honour his Church let it for euer be your ioie and the Crowne of your dignitie with the good Emperour Theodosius rather to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij let the example of David be euer before your Princely eies his profession I my house wil serue the Lord his protestation It did mee good when they said we wil goe vnto the house of the Lord my feet shal stand in thy gates o Jerusalem So shall the eies that see you blesse you the eares that heare you giue witnes to you and the mouthes that speake of you shal crie from the earth to the heauens blessed be the wombe that bare the and the papps that gaue

must remember they that were marked to be preserued in Jerusalem they were marked with the Character 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the last of al the Hebrew letters teaching thē that they must run their race euen to the last Their profession must be Sacramentum militare to hold vntil death like to the couenant in our Liturgy of matrimony to be kept til death vs depart like to that in the Poet of Megara to her Hercules Seneca Non vincet fidem vis vlla nostram Moriar Alcide tua They must with the a Cant. 3.4 Spouse in the Canticles take hold and not leaue the hold With b Io. 20 21. Mary Magdalen stand and wait and stay at the sepulchre they must with the c Mat. 15.22 woman of Canaan crie continue in crying calling e Heb 12.4 d Phil. 4.1 They must continue in the Lord they must be stedfast and vnmoueable alwaies abounding in the worke of the Lord. f Ps 126.6 They must goe and go on yea they must goe and go vp with these Israelites Non est ad astra mollis è terris via They must go on go vp clime and ascend if they will be trulie vpright they must go right vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob The vse herof is to exhort those that are matriculated in the book of Christ Vse that they proue proficiēts in his Schoole that they may walke frō strength to strēgth from faith to faith from vertue to vertue frō grace to grace Ps 84. Rom 1.17 2. Cor. 3 18 and so maie at length passe frō glorie to glorie That so there be no euil or vnfaithful hart in vs at any time to fal from the liuing God not starting aside as Ephraim not backsliding with Demis not gainesaying with Ecebolius not repugning with Iulian not turning from the truth with Phygellus and Hermogenes not making shipwracke of a good cōscience with Hymeneus and Alexander but that for euer and euer wee consecrate our bodies to his name our eares to heare his word our tongue to sound his praises our hands to be lifted vp 4 obseru our cheekes to be bedewed our knees to be bowed our feet to aproach his Courts and so I come to the place whether they goe to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob The Church of God in Scripture is compared to manie seueral things Cant. 2.10 Elek 17.6 for her louelines to a a Doue for her fruitfulnes to a b Vine for her holynesseto a c Pet. 2.9 Priecthood for her royalnesse to a d Psa 45.10 Queene for her brightnesse to the e Cant. 6.9 Morning for her fairenesse faire as the fairest of f Cant. 5.9 woemē and here for her safenesse to mount Syon not for her visiblenes as the Papists out of this other places affirme but for her stedfastnes and safenesse shee is as Mount Syon that standeth fast fore ermore For visibility we hold as it hath been often answered them that it is an externall ornament no necessary argument of Christs Church wee know that of St. Austen to be true that the Church is wel compared to the Moone In Psal 10. for as the Moone receiueth the light from the Sunne so doth the true Church receiue her light from Jesus Christ the Sunne of righteousnes And as the Moone so the Church is sōetimes in the full shineth in ful brightnesse as in the Apostles times and diuers hundred yeares after Some times she is in the waine and ecclipsed as for manie hundred yeares last past it hath beene in which that Apostasie frō the faith is come which S. Paule by the spirit of God foreshewed That there should come a departing and the man of sin should be disclosed euē the sonne of perdition 2. Thes 2.3 and more plainlie the spirit speaketh euidentlie that in the latter times some shal depart from the faith and shal giue heede vnto spirits of errour and doctrine of deuils which speake lies through hipocrisie and haue their Consciences burnt with a hot iron 1. Tim. 4.1 For the visibilitie of the Church the argument would as well befit Bethel where Ieroboam his calues had more cōcourse then the Temple at Ierusalem and might iustifie the Ephesians clamour Great is Diana of the Ephesians whom al the world worshippeth and is as availeable to proue the Arrians to be of the Church Naziane who measured their Church by multitude not quality and the Turke maie in this contest with the Pope his Church being as apparant in shew as ceremonious for rites as superstitious in deuotion as glorious in Temples as ancient almost for succession Our aduersaries in this remēber not how in the sacred stories the Church is hieroglyphically depainted by Noahs arke by Abrahams progeny Iobs family Eliahs complaint Nebuchadne sors furnace the Apostles latent the Christians Couchant That the Church is like a a Cant. 2.2 Lylie among the Thornes like a Lylie of the vallies Like a b Esay 1.8 Lodge in a garden of Cucumers Like a c Cant. 2.14 Doue in the holes of the rockes and in the secret places of the staires d Rev. 12.6 like a woman flying into the desert e Eze. 16.5 yea cast out into the open field to the contempt of her person Thus hath shee bin seene and skorned acknowledged but detested visible but miserable Where now is the magnificent pompe and glorie and speciositie eminencie and perspicuitie of this Church I follow these visible heretickes no farther about their visibility The Church is here named by the name of a mountaine That God who among al the fowles chose the Doue among al the flowers the Lylie among al trees the Cedar amōg al natiōs Iudaea amōg al daies the Saboath among al turrets the tower of David among al Cities Ierusalem among al other moūtaines hath chosen Syon for himselfe It is not Babilon that burnt mountaine Ier. 51.25 nor Horeb that smoaking mountaine Exod. 19.18 nor Eball that cursing mountaine Deut 27. ●3 nor Synai that trembling mountaine Deut 4.1 where there was fire to the midest of heauen and darknesse and mists and cloudes and thundring and lightning the Trumpet sounding and the earth quaking But it is that prepared mountaine Mich. 4.1 it is that high mountaine Esec 20.40 It is that holy moūtaine Ps 2.6 Jt is the mountaine of his name Esay 18.7 it is the mountaine of his Temple Mich. 3.12 the mountaine of his testament Esay 14.13 the mountaine of the house of the Lord. Mons supra montes mons in vertice montium Some take these words to be spoken of the general Church some of the particular Temple Some that the Prophet here alludeth by the particular to the general Sion was the place where he apointed his Temple to bee built this therfore is called the